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Hi,

I’m trying to implement PHP 7.
I have managed to make it work in “CGI” mode, but I have an error that I can not analyze when I try to make it run in “FastCGI” mode:

[error] [client 126.32.101.80] FastCGI: incomplete headers (115 bytes) received from server “/local/basepro/m4stats/php/php.fcgi”, referer: http://tmvs:8080/

In the previous version PHP 5, the two modes “CGI” and “FastCGI” were working.

Both modes are very similar: PHP is executed through a shell script that declares the necessary environment variables and calls the PHP interpreter.

In httpd.conf I said (excerpt):

<Location />                  
CharsetSourceEnc IBM-1047
CharsetDefault   ISO8859-1    
</Location>
AddType    application/x-httpd-php .php
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule fastcgi_module modules/mod_fastcgi.so
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
FastCgiIpcDir /local/basepro/httpserv/fastcgi
FastCgiConfig -autoUpdate -singleThreshold 100 -killInterval 300 -maxProcesses 10 -maxClassProcesses 1
</IfModule>

In my application (directory) to activate the “CGI” mode I add to the Apache configuration:

Alias /M4Stats /local/basepro/m4stats  
<Directory /local/basepro/m4stats>  
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var   
AddHandler myphp-cgi .php             
Action myphp-cgi /M4Stats/php/php.cgi 
</Directory> 
<Directory "/local/basepro/m4stats/php">  
Options +ExecCGI   
AllowOverride None 
Options None       
Order allow,deny   
Allow from all     
SetHandler cgi-script 
</Directory>   

The shell script “php.cgi” to run in “CGI” mode is:

#!/bin/sh   
export _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON           
export CGI_HEADER_ENCODING=EBCDIC 
export CGI_BODY_ENCODING=EBCDIC 
_CEE_RUNOPTS="$_CEE_RUNOPTS,HEAP(,,,FREE)"  
export _CEE_RUNOPTS                         
PHPRC="/local/basepro/m4stats/php"  
export PHPRC                        
DSNAOINI="/local/basepro/m4stats/php/DSNAOINI"  
export DSNAOINI                                 
exec /sysplex/produit/outdev/php/php-7.0.5/bin/php-cgi "$@" 

In this configuration PHP 7 works.

In my application (directory) to activate the “FastCGI” mode I add to the Apache configuration:

Alias /M4Stats /local/basepro/m4stats
<Directory /local/basepro/m4stats>  
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var 
AddHandler myphp-fcgi .php             
Action myphp-fcgi /M4Stats/php/php.fcgi
</Directory> 
<Directory "/local/basepro/m4stats/php">
Options +ExecCGI    
AllowOverride None  
Options None        
Order allow,deny    
Allow from all      
setHandler fastcgi-script 
</Directory> 

The shell script “php.fcgi” to run in “FastCGI” mode is:

#!/bin/sh 
export _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON             
export CGI_HEADER_ENCODING=EBCDIC   
export CGI_BODY_ENCODING=EBCDIC  
_CEE_RUNOPTS="$_CEE_RUNOPTS,HEAP(,,,FREE)"   
export _CEE_RUNOPTS                          
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5         
export PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000  
export PHPRC="/local/basepro/m4stats/php" 
export DSNAOINI="/local/basepro/m4stats/php/DSNAOINI" 
exec /sysplex/produit/outdev/php/php-7.0.5/bin/php-cgi "$@" 

In this configuration PHP 7 failes with a message in Apache error.log:

[error] [client 126.32.101.80] FastCGI: incomplete headers (115 bytes) received from server “/local/basepro/m4stats/php/php.fcgi”

I activated a trace of the IP frames, but it shows nothing.

See details in the attached file.PHP_7_FastCGI.tar.gz (1,5 Mo)

Thanks for your help.

Denis

Hi Denis,

Thanks for the complete information.
The problem was recreated in our environment. We will investigate the issue.

Thanks,
Sergey

Internal ticket

Hi Denis,

I’ve found and fixed the reason of this issue. In details:

• apache + mod_fastcgi submits only EBCDIC-encoded data
• php works only with ASCII-encoded strings
• FastCGI doesn’t use pure textual HTTP. Instead It uses FastCGI records which are textual HTTP data wrapped with binary structure. So Enhanced ASCII support can’t be used because only textual data should be converted to EBCDIC, not binary data.

New release with FastCGI support will be available soon.